Article ID: CBB000932122

Safeguarding Slaves: Smallpox, Vaccination, and Governmental Health Policies among the Enslaved Population in the Danish West Indies, 1803--1848 (2009)

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Jensen, Niklas Thode (Author)


Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Volume: 83
Pages: 95--124


Publication Date: 2009
Edition Details: Part of a special issue: Simultaneously Global and Local: Reassessing Smallpox Vaccination and Its Spread, 1789--1900
Language: English

During the first half of the nineteenth century, a unique system of vaccination against smallpox was developed in the island of St. Croix in the Danish West Indies. The primary intention was to protect the population of enslaved workers, which was of fundamental importance to the economy of the colony. However, because the Danish abolition of the slave trade in 1803 had stopped the imports of new enslaved workers from Africa, the population was also decreasing. The vaccination system's success was due to a high degree of governmental control of the enslaved population that was virtually unseen anywhere else in the Caribbean.

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Authors & Contributors
Jannetta, Ann Bowman
Junaidi
Mulich, Jeppe
Willrich, Michael
Rusnock, Andrea
Rigau-Pérez, José Gabriel
Concepts
Disease and diseases
Medicine
Smallpox
Vaccines; vaccination
Public health
Epidemics
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century, early
20th century
Meiji period (Japan, 1868-1910)
17th century
Places
Caribbean
Brazil
West Indies
Japan
India
Velha Goa (India)
Institutions
World Health Organization (WHO)
Catholic University of Ireland (Dublin)
Royal Belfast Academical Institution
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